Posts Tagged Vote
VoteCalgary (housing construction) Mayoral Forum
Posted by gordonmcdowell in Calgary, Politics on 2010-10-10
VoteCalgary (funded by Calgary’s housing construction industry) presented our mayoral candidates with questions which allowed candidates to pitch “consumer choice” and “freedom” against sustainable growth, should they so choose.
Comparing candidates performance at VoteCalgary forum, then contrasting against their performance against CivicCamp forum (where “sustainable” is all the rage) could have reflected poorly on any candidate to played too strongly to their respective audience. But candidates pretty much held their ground no matter who they were speaking to. (Darn! No explosive juxtapositions between debates!)
This forum (which allowed rebuttals and rebuttal-rebuttals) was refreshingly short… aside from an introductory question, and a closing question, the only non-bookend question was “How will you support inward, upward and outward city growth?”
| Host |
Craig |
Joe |
Bob |
Barb |
Jon |
Ric |
Naheed |
Wayne |
|
| introduction | 00:40 | 02:28 | 04:04 | 05:20 | 06:54 | 08:28 | 10:04 | 11:37 | |
| city growth | 15:58 | 14:53 | 13:48 | ||||||
| 17:28 | 16:30 | ||||||||
| 21:31 | 20:27 | 19:24 | 18:52 | 18:30 | |||||
| 23:38 | 22:44 | 21:46 | 24:45 | ||||||
| 26:17 | 25:20 | ||||||||
| 28:00 | 27:21 | ||||||||
| differentiate | 29:02 | 29:56 | 31:00 | 32:04 | 33:12 | 34:15 | 35:18 | 36:21 |
This video is released under Creative Commons share-alike 3.0 license.
ArtsVote Calgary – Mayoral Forum
Posted by gordonmcdowell in Calgary, Politics on 2010-09-30
An optimal candidate debate probably has some similarity to an optimal team size, too many members result in confusion, and ultimately… despair.
“The organizers had to make arrangements to get the candidates quite early. There are a few candidates running for mayor who are not onstage, but are here this afternoon. Afterwards, stick around and you can put your questions to them.” – Jim Brown
It would appear ArtsVote, by soliciting participation early and having a deadline, has solved this problem. Good on them, because the result was a better forum.
And, seriously, they put thought into how to force candidates to use their time wisely, and only speak when they have a critical point to make.
I enjoyed this Calgary mayoral forum immensely, and I hope you do too. Thanks to Chelsea Pratchett for help covering the event, and to ArtsVote for allowing me to do this in an official capacity.
Host |
Wayne |
Ric |
Naheed |
Jon |
Joe |
Craig |
Bob |
Barb |
| introduction | 01:33 | 03:29 | 05:04 | 06:44 | 08:25 | 10:00 | 11:37 | 13:17 |
| forced closures | 19:22 | 21:02 | 17:18 | |||||
| affordable space | 24:29 | 22:26 | ||||||
| accessibility | 29:00 | 30:56 | 32:29 | |||||
| CATA budget | 34:10 | 35:49 | 36:55 | |||||
| arts festivals | 43:10 | 39:08 | 41:27 | |||||
| funding solution | 50:14 | 46:39 | 48:35 | |||||
| retain artists | 54:20 | 55:48 | 52:32 | |||||
| funding pitch | 60:15 | 61:57 | 58:13 | |||||
| buh bye | 67:00 | 66:38 | 66:13 | 65:24 | Gone! | 64:43 | 64:15 | 63:35 |
This video is released under Creative Commons share-alike 3.0 license.